Category: RKBA

Starbucks had been trying to play Switzerland in the gun debate by being aggressively neutral and serving everyone.

Now we have an open letter from their CEO asking for people not to bring guns into their stores.

Few topics in America generate a more polarized and emotional debate than guns. In recent months, Starbucks stores and our partners (employees) who work in our stores have been thrust unwillingly into the middle of this debate. That’s why I am writing today with a respectful request that customers no longer bring firearms into our stores or outdoor seating areas.

I can understand Starbucks wanting to get out of this debate, but caving in isn’t the answer. The gun rights faction is surprisingly fickle with their dollars and they have long memories. (Ask S&W and Ruger about overcoming the effects of their previous stances).

This has been making the rounds:

I’m sure the author of this thought it was a noble statement against violence. It’s not. It’s a complete capitulation to those that would do harm to others. How does the author of this expect to stop someone bent on taking another’s life? Strong commands? Taser? Fisticuffs?

This type of thinking is so alien to me, I can’t comprehend how someone who is a father would believe it. Avoiding violence is a good thing, but what kind of father would not defend his children’s lives?

BTW, standing in front of your children and taking the bullets is not saving them. It is delaying the inevitable. At that moment, you must be prepared to do anything, including kill, to prevent their deaths. If this thought is abhorrent to you, please don’t pass along your genes or culture because you have all the survival instinct of an armadillo on a highway.

I take great pains to make sure that any advice I give is backed up by current facts. I read the experts to make sure what I think I know is actually, y’know, correct. Why? Because some people actually value what I say and have made decisions on my advice. People who I respect have depended on advice I gave them to defend their lives.

So it appalls me when I read an article with anecdotes of “experts” giving horrific advice. RTWT.

After Newtown, the anti-gun forces rallied around magazine limits and universal background checks, because these were what they thought they could manage to ram through.

Now, with the rally call of Trayvon Martin, they have decided to go after “Stand Your Ground.”

In both cases, the legislation being pushed would have had no effect on the triggering incidents, but that has never dissuaded the anti-gun folks.
One smart tactic they’ve learned is to push at the state level.

Governor Scott has said he won’t call a special session. This gives us time. Time to start reminding the state legislators not to bow to manufactured hype. Because the full-court press will begin once they’re back in Tallahassee.